Abdullah the king has named his fifteen-year-old son as his successor.
Jordan is a US ally because no one else would protect the illegal state from rightful dismemberment by Israel, Syria, and Iraq.
International human rights groups, so sensitive to less-than-perfect democracy in Israel, have voiced no opposition to the Jordanian monarchy.
Jordan and Israel democracies are a funny thing to discuss. They don’t have any idea what a democracy is. Jordan and Israel are hypocrites pretending to be modern states.